"This meatball soup is delicious!"

Shen Jiayue took a bite of the meat roll, then scooped up a vegetarian meatball with a small spoon and put it into her mouth.

The meatballs are freshly fried, and they still have that crispy feeling on the outside. When soaked in the spicy and sour soup, they taste spicy and delicious in your mouth, which is very enjoyable.

I never thought that vegetarian meatball soup could taste so delicious.

Lin Xu said:

"If you want to eat meatballs, I'll make some for you later. The Chinese New Year is coming soon, so it's really time to make some meatballs and prepare some New Year's goods."

Although we won’t celebrate the New Year in Beijing this year, we still need to prepare the New Year’s goods.

If you prepare a day early, you can eat early.

As soon as Shen Jiayue heard that New Year's goods were being prepared, she started ordering:

"Then make some Laba garlic. It's the kind of green garlic. It's very enjoyable to eat with dumplings."

"Okay, I'll start after I finish my work."

Lin Xu is no stranger to Laba garlic. In the past, Chen Meijuan would make some before the Spring Festival every year. Not only would she put garlic in it, but she would also put cabbage cut into strips.

The sour and crisp texture and taste are a perfect match for dumplings.

While eating, Chen Yan and Ren Jie came upstairs.

"Quick, hurry, serve us some soup, I'm so hungry."

Chen Yan took a piece of fluffy and fragrant fried dough sticks from the basket and took a bite. She felt that the deep-fried dough sticks were even better than those at the breakfast stall. When she ate them, she whetted her appetite instantly.

Che Zai went to the kitchen, filled two bowls of meatball soup in a large bowl, and said with a smile:

"This is made by Master Ma. He said it is a delicacy from the Central Plains. It tastes sour and spicy, and it is really similar to the soup at the water banquet."

Hot and sour taste is the original flavor of many places in the Central Plains. The sour aroma of vinegar combined with the spiciness of pepper forms the most cherished hometown taste of the Central Plains people.

Various delicacies in the Central Plains region, such as water banquets, tripe soup, spicy soup, beef soup, meatball soup, canned dumplings and other delicacies, all use hot and sour as the base flavor.

Lin Xu took a sip of the soup:

"In the past, the Central Plains region was plagued by disasters. The people were poor and had poor food. They relied on vinegar and pepper to enhance the flavor. This also resulted in the dining habit of combining meals in the Central Plains region."

In other areas, meals and soups are generally served separately, but many dishes in the Central Plains region combine vegetables, rice and soup, the most typical example of which is braised noodles.

Ren Jie said:

"This spring, I went to Luocheng in the Central Plains with Team Sui on a business trip. I saw that the whole street there was full of various beef soups, paired with staple food, and it was very enjoyable to eat."

Ma Zhiqiang brought a small basket of fried dough sticks, meat rolls and other staple foods and responded:

"There are indeed a lot of beef soups in Los Angeles. Every household looks the same, but the ingredients and soup stock are different. It's their secret... A guy of mine is from Los Angeles. He said

When drinking local beef soup, it is difficult to find two identical ones, there will be some differences."

Shen Jiayue was curious and asked Lin Xu in a low voice:

"I know everything else, but what are the jar dumplings you're talking about?"

Lin Xu broke open the fried dough sticks in his hand and soaked them in the soup, and said while eating:

"It is a delicacy that combines sour soup dumplings and meatball soup. Compared with the soup we drink now, there are more dumplings in it."

Shen Jiayue used Kuaizi to pick up a piece of soaked fried dough sticks from Lin Xu's bowl, tasted it, and then soaked the fried dough sticks in her hand into the bowl.

In order to make it taste better, she also poured some chili oil into the bowl.

While eating like this, you can listen to everyone discuss the delicacies of the Central Plains region.

Although Chen Yan has traveled to many places, she doesn't know much about the Central Plains. Listening to everyone's discussion this time, like Shen Jiayue, she is also full of curiosity and wants to try it.

Lin Xu said:

"After attending Qi Siming's apprenticeship banquet at noon today, I will finish the household registration matters after the household registration book arrives. In the following time, I will try to cook as many New Year's delicacies as possible to let you experience the New Year's customs in the Central Plains."

Lin will not have a holiday during the Chinese New Year this year, so he has to try his best to make everyone eat and drink well.

However, although there are no holidays, there will be days off so that employees can go home in batches.

Dou Wenjing and Shu Yun are already making arrangements for this matter. Although it seems simple, they still need to communicate with the employees in advance.

For example, Wei Qian plans to go to Song Tiantian's house to celebrate the New Year this year. One of them is the front desk manager and the other is the head chef. When arranging breaks, he must consider the employees who are on vacation in the same batch.

We cannot let the management staff go home to celebrate the New Year together, leaving a group of employees busy here.

After the meal, Chen Yan packed some food and drinks and went to Lao Suntou's house with Ren Jie, while Lin Xu brought out the rice milk that had been steamed in the steamer for nearly half an hour.

At this time, the rice milk has been completely steamed and turned into a translucent state, and a strong rice fragrance can be smelled from a distance.

Go to the small kitchen, wipe the work surface clean, and then pour some peanut oil on it.

Then buckle the steaming tray up and pour out the rice milk that is lumped inside.

The steamed rice milk was very hot, very hot, and very hard compared to glutinous rice. Lin Xu tried kneading it using a kneading method, but he didn't knead it.

"It's so hard, much different from glutinous rice."

Lin Xu tried kneading it twice more, but the rice balls were still very hard and couldn't be kneaded.

Niu Chuang didn't believe it, so he came over and tried it. He was strong enough and could barely knead it out of shape, and the rice ball split immediately.

"This method doesn't work, we have to change our thinking."

Lin Xu hit the rice balls with a rolling pin a few times. This time it was a little better, but just like Niu Chuang forcefully crushing it with a rolling pin, the rice balls would still crack.

It's not as sticky as glutinous rice, so it's really hard to handle.

And in order to get a better effect yesterday, when Lin Xu soaked the rice, he deliberately changed it to rice pulp used for food processing in southern Yunnan.

The so-called pulp rice refers to rice with a relatively high pulp yield.

This kind of rice will taste very hard if eaten directly, but it is better than ordinary rice when used to process foods such as bait wire, rice noodles, and rice cakes.

Rice with a high pulp extraction rate can produce more food, so everyone naturally welcomes it.

But now, he has tasted the pain of using original ingredients. This kind of rice is inherently hard, and grinding it first and then steaming it will make it harder.

So now I feel like I have nowhere to start.

Shen Jiayue made a small ball by herself, took the mace she bought before to make Chaoshan beef balls, and smashed it on the bamboo and eucalyptus board next to it. Unexpectedly, the effect was good.

The originally hard rice ball was actually deformed by the hammer, and gradually turned into a dough piece from the original ball.

Lin Xu looked at this operation and felt that he could follow this idea.

He folded the rice balls that Shen Jiayue had flattened and asked the girl to continue smashing them. Then he found that the rice balls were gradually getting softer and at the same time had better ductility and...

"The freshly steamed rice balls are disordered, so they are relatively hard. As long as the rice balls are smashed or squeezed into an ordered state, they will become much softer."

Niu Chuang also discovered this method and said:

"If I could roll it twice, I guess using a rolling pin would save a lot of trouble."

Crush?

Lin Xu glanced at the small mace in Shen Baobao's hand. Although it was effective when smashed, it was too small and only a pair.

By the time I finish pounding the dough bit by bit, it will probably be noon.

You have to find a way to crush the rice balls quickly.

He was thinking seriously, and the last time his senior brother made bamboo noodles suddenly flashed into his mind.

Eh?

This is a good idea.

The bamboo noodles are made of large moso bamboo, which is relatively large, and it is supported by the weight of the human body, so it has a lot of force to press down. If you crush it twice, it might actually work.

They are also available in Zhushengmian equipment stores, and they are all made by Shen Jiayue.

Lin Xu placed a stainless steel bracket next to the workbench, inserted a piece of large moso bamboo with the mouth of a bowl into it, and applied some peanut oil on the moso bamboo to prevent adhesion.

Then put all the steamed rice balls under the moso bamboo and start rolling them.

In order to prevent accidents, he specially exchanged the excellent technique of bamboo noodles.

The surface is secondary, the main thing is to master the technique of crushing moso bamboo.

After the exchange was successful, he started rolling against a long bench. He straddled the bamboo with his thigh and stepped on the bench with his other leg. He first stepped hard on the bench to give his body an upward force, and then used his body's own gravity.

Press the moso bamboo and grind it on the rice balls.

A groove was immediately pressed into the rice ball.

"Hey, it sure works!"

Niu Chuang screamed in surprise. He originally thought he was going to the Pastry Department to bring over the small emergency noodle machine, but he didn't expect it to be used at all. He just used the bamboo noodle technique to crush the rice balls, and the rice balls immediately became docile.

Post it.

Lin Xu didn't expect the effect to be so good. He smiled and said:

"This method of using magic to attack magic really works. Let's continue and crush the rice balls while they are hot. Then use a rolling pin to roll them into dough."
To be continued...